Researchers in EAEI focus on three broad areas: Energy Markets, Policy, and Infrastructure; Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis; and Appliance and Equipment Standards.

We develop analytical and experimental methods and tools to assess the technical, economic and market potential of energy technologies, as well as the associated social, economic, health and environmental impacts.

EAEI researchers provide unbiased, scientific, high quality and innovative research and technical assistance to government agencies in the United States and throughout the world. We help these entities develop long-term strategies, policies and programs that facilitate energy efficiency and the deployment of clean energy technology with minimum environmental and health impacts in all sectors and industries.

Louis-Benoit Desroches

Louis-Benoit Desroches is a Research Scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Energy Efficiency Standards Group. Louis currently leads the technical work supporting energy conservation standards and test procedure development for space-heating and water-heating equipment, as well as electronics products, for the U.S. Department of Energy. Louis has 8 years of experience in the area of regulatory and voluntary energy conservation policy, energy use analysis, techno-economic life-cycle analysis, market research, and project management. Louis has a background in physics and astronomy and received a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of California at Berkeley.